. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . p into the airand descend without interrupting their loud and indescribably sweet song. Here and therea Cardinal Redbird or a Carolina Wren, apparently yet half asleep, sound a few day breaks in the East, signs of life are perceptible in the Martin-house of ourgarden. At first we hear the pleasing melodious notes uttered quite softly and atintervals, but with the increasing li
. Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America . p into the airand descend without interrupting their loud and indescribably sweet song. Here and therea Cardinal Redbird or a Carolina Wren, apparently yet half asleep, sound a few day breaks in the East, signs of life are perceptible in the Martin-house of ourgarden. At first we hear the pleasing melodious notes uttered quite softly and atintervals, but with the increasing light they increase in frequency and loudness. Whilethus twittering, the males project their purplish-black heads into the fresh morning a short while one after another emerges, smoothing the plumage and twitteringcheerily. Then, with loud music out they dart into their real element, the air. A fresh,gay, and cheery liveliness the twelve pairs, breeding in ovir Martin-house, impart tothe garden, the yard, and the landscape around. The Bluebirds, the Tufted Titmice,and the Carolina and Bewicks Wrens appear from out of their nesting-boxes, but they 1 O/ea frAgrana, 2 MagaoUst fascata. XVIII. 1. CHELIDON ERVrHROGASTER PROGNE SUB IS Bid. 9 3 4. PETKOCHELIDON LUNIFRONS Brd. 5. CHAETURA PELAGICA Steph. 6. TACHYCINETA BICOLOR Cab. SCHEUNENSCHWALBE. MARTINSCHWALBE. TRAUFSCHWALBE. SCH0RNSTEINSE6LER, BAUMSCHWALBE. Barn Swallow. Purple Martin ( 2 female,5male). Cliff Swallow. Chimney Swift. Tree Swallow . PURPLE MARTIN. 337 fly away for some distance before they begin to greet the new day with their loudchants. All these and many other garden birds add much to the pleasures of countrylife, but none of them in the familiar and attractive manner of the cozy Purple Martin,which always likes to breed in colonies of two to twenty and more pairs. Howwonderfully glitters their blue-black plumage in the finest purple and violet hues, howcharmingly graceful is their flight
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